Francois Gouget wrote: > I work on an i386 Debian package which I compile on an amd64 host. I do this > by setting CC="gcc -m32" and calling 'dpkg-buildpackage -ai386' which gives > me binaries of the right type. > But if I call dh_strip I get the following error: > > + dh_strip > Can't exec "i486-linux-gnu-strip": No such file or directory at > /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 215. > dh_strip: i486-linux-gnu-strip --remove-section=.comment > --remove-section=.note debian/teststrip/usr/bin/hello failed to to execute: > No such file or directory > dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status > 2 > > > I checked in Debian's package archive and none of the packages installs an > '*-linux-gnu-strip' file. So dh_strip's expectations that it can find such a > file seem mistaken. Besides plain old 'strip' works just fine in this case. > > I have uploaded a test package to: > http://fgouget.free.fr/bugs/teststrip_1.0-1.tar.gz > > To reproduce this bug just run './build' in the teststrip-1.0 directory on an > amd64 system that has the gcc-multilib package.
All that dh_strip knows is that dpkg-architecture is returning values that indicate there is cross compilation in process, and that prefixing the command with DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE is the standard way to get a program that is capable of handling this. You may have a bug in dpkg-dev here, I don't know. -- see shy jo
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